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State of Service: NC/SC
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
John Earle was the son of Major Samuel Earle III and his wife Anna Sorrell Earle. He was born in Virginia, the fourth child and third son, growing up in Frederick, Virginia. John married Thomasine Prince about 1765 in either Virginia or South Carolina. In later years their son, John Earle, wrote, "My father having married and removed to South Carolina before I was born...," and that John was the first child of John and Thomasine we believe that the five children by their union were born in South Carolina. John was a soldier in the War of the American Revolution. John lost his first wife in 1781 and he married second Rebecca Berry, the widow Mr. Wood. These notes for John are from The Earles and The Birnies, by John E. Birnie, 1974. which added John died on the 24th of November 1815, and he was buried in Landrum Cemetery. References: From Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.2, p. Serial: 12978; Volume: 1. John is listed as buried Landrum Cemetery, Spartanburg County, SC.
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